Tools included with Dyne:bolic include MuSE, TerminatorX, GDam, SoundTracker, and PD (for
mixing and streaming audio). Video editors include Kino, Cinelerra, and LiVES. For 3D modeling,
there is Blender. For image manipulation, Dyne:bolic includes GIMP. Bluefish is included for creating
Web pages.
Tiny Desktops
A small CD, shaped in the form of a business card, can fit in your wallet. A USB pen drive can hang
from your keychain. There are whole bootable Linux distributions that enable you to boot up a
desktop with which you can connect to the Internet, browse the Web, play music, send and receive
e-mail, do instant messaging, write documents, and work with spreadsheets. And they can do all
that in about 50MB of space on a removable medium.
CD business cards are really just regular CDs that have been cut into the shape of a
business card. Depending on the one you choose, it can hold from 40MB to 52MB of
data. A mini-CD can hold about 180MB of data. You can purchase these CDs in bulk from many locations
that sell regular CDs, and you can play them in any CD drive. (However, it??™s best to use these
CDs in trays that have a mini-CD inset because they have been known to fly loose and break CD drives.)
Many bootable Linuxes these days are either based on KNOPPIX or the Bootable Business Card
project (http://www.
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